The notorious Sexgate taper has applied for a U.S. government job in Germany, the Pacific and European editions of the Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes reported on its Web site yesterday.

Tripp – who lost her Pentagon job in a general housecleaning days before President Clinton left office – flew to Germany on Monday to be interviewed for the post of deputy director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, the paper reported.

“She’s being considered, along with fellow candidates, for the job,” the center’s director, Robert Kennedy, told the paper.

Three other people have applied for the job, the paper reported.

The Marshall center promotes the study of security and defense issues, and has representatives from more than 40 countries.

Tripp became famous for taping her tawdry conversations with presidential paramour Monica Lewinsky and for encouraging the one-time White House intern to save a blue dress stained with the president’s semen.

Her tapes fueled the Sexgate probe that lead to Clinton’s impeachment.

Kennedy said Tripp applied for the Germany job sometime before she was booted from the Pentagon.

As a political appointee, Tripp was expected to hand in her resignation at the end of Clinton’s term but she refused to do so and was fired.